Workshop Summary
The aim of this session is to bring together the six foundation industries, with representation from their respective supply chains, to identify opportunities for industrial symbiosis. The focal point of our workshop will be the use of a simple, internationally proven resource matching methodology that seeks to identify new business opportunities for participants’ waste resources. The session would be interactive and will require a modest amount of preparation from all delegates ahead of the event. The output will be a significant number of industrial symbiosis synergies, some quick wins and others longer term innovation opportunities. All will have the potential to reduce cost, cut carbon emissions and reduce waste disposal.
You will be contacted prior to the workshop to provide information on your own resource HAVES and WANTS. This is a key component of the matching process which is undertaken on the day.
• HAVES are resources that your company produce and wish to find a higher value market opportunity for, these could be resources such process wastes, by products, energy and heat, water, logistics or processing capacity.
• WANTS are resources that your company could potentially use as process inputs and represent an opportunity for a more cost effective and sustainable source of raw material, water, energy or logistics.
For ease, this information can be provided using data already being collected as part of the TransFIRe project but will need your express permission for its use as part of the matching activity. If this is not desirable, then one of the TransFIRe team will contact you to arrange to talk through your own resource data input.
Workshop Agenda
The agenda for the resource matching workshop is:
13.30 Welcome and Introductions
13.45 Introduction to TransFIRe and the Resource Matching Workshop
13.55 Interactive Resource Matching Session
15.20 Workshop Summary and Close
Workshop Follow Up
Within a week of the event’s conclusion, you will receive your own bespoke company report identifying those potential resource matches that were created on the day, as well any additional opportunities that have been identified from our supporting data analysis.
Our intention is to hold a follow up workshop on the 19th of July, for which you will receive a separate invite. Here we will present the outcomes of the resource matching session and engage in a discussion on how together we can successfully advance the identified synergies.